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Money is a means of exchange or unit of account that in its essence represents real value, such as your labor. It can be used much more like physical shackles than mind control. Because people need to eat, people need housing, that's not an illusion. And money isn't inherently bad, the mind control is in the part where they convinced a majority that it's ok for them to keep the key to everyone's shackles.

In the end all the ways Bitcoiners thought the system would come after them never happened. Ironically they got exactly what they wished for and what critics thought could never happen. Because the establishment has a much easier way to suffocate emerging uprisings: Buying off the leaders and incorporating the movement into the mainstream. Crypto has gotten assimilated.